1. Aaron Copland is one of America’s most popular classical composers.
2. He was known as “the dean of American composers”. photo credit: gulfporthighsingers.com photo credit:www.bbc.co.uk photo credit: press.princeton.edu
3. Copland’s music was sampled by the rock band Queen and used for the song “We will rock you”
4. His song, “Fanfare for the Common Man” has been played at sporting events and at political events like President Obama’s 2009 first election party.
5. The space-themed sound of “Fanfare for the Common Man” can be heard in the intros of the original Star Trek series, OLYMPICS and Superman and Apollo 13.
6. In 1964, Aaron Copland was awarded with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon Johnson.
7. In 1925, he received the first Guggenheim fellowship awarded to a composer.
8. Aaron Copland is an Academy Award-winning composer
9. Aaron Copland was a teacher, lecturer, critic, writer, and conductor.
10. Most of Copland’s early exposure to music was at Jewish weddings and ceremonies, and occasional family musicales.
11. At the age of 11, Copland created an opera song called Zenatello, which was his first notated melody.
12. By the age of 15, after attending a concert, Copland decided to become a composer.

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